Adjective : an inveterate gambler.    From Dictionary.com. 

False, superstitious, inveterately cruel — but not mad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haunted Hotel] Reference

He starts at chance noises as inveterately as Laura herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in White] Reference

(Having inveterately corrupt officials doesn't help, either.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Sam Gustin: In a Congress of millionaires, Republican Anh Cao voted for poor New Orleans] Reference

Allan was too inveterately straightforward to take the warning even now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armadale] Reference

Nothing could have been colder, less propitious, or more inveterately hostile than the reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duke's Children] Reference

It would be an unpleasant result if the real Universities should be proved to be inveterately Tory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

Eccentricity seeks familiarity, and in obtaining it yields up any claim to be inveterately peculiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The All-Star Victorian] Reference

One might think here of how Elia, that inveterately autobiographical yet mercurial non-entity, beckons the readers of the.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists] Reference

In her situation, and with her temper, the quieter she is now, the more inveterately I, for one, distrust her in the futur e.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Name] Reference

The rooms were small and inveterately dirty, for there was no maid, and Madame F., the patronne, had no time to do any sweeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in the World] Reference

The rooms were small arid inveterately dirty, for there was no maid, and Madame F., the PATRONNE, had no time to do any sweeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic, but praiseworthy, tendency to die before reproducing their kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Brazil is so inveterately racist that it has never even needed racist laws to keep its black people in their totally low position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Alex Castro: A liberal, libertarian and libertine Brazilian blogger] Reference

“I had anticipated the pleasure of communicating with Mrs. Vanstone,” answered this inveterately evasive and inveterately civil man.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Name] Reference

It is all in vain -- they are inveterately obstinate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference

On which, just here, Miss Gostrey inveterately questioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ambassadors] Reference

We have an inveterately false and vicious system of society in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fallen Leaves] Reference

He cried piteously, inveterately; he cried all night and most of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Combined Maze] Reference

It's indeed inveterately against himself that he makes his imagination act.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of the Lion] Reference

So far as political action is concerned, they tend to be inveterately negative.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals] Reference

Ripton, with Adrian's eyes inveterately fixed on him, stammered an affirmative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference

She hasn't been anything whatever, I surmise, that she has not inveterately been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embarrassments] Reference

What its critics now affirm is that its preferences are inveterately for the inferior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories and Studies] Reference

There is no country in the world, sir, that pursues corruption as inveterately as we do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference

The three I have just mentioned are all too inveterately spirits of mockery even to take seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

Although it's not a good thing to lie, it's always good to see clearly those who do so inveterately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand Firm] Reference

Rizzo hated Vittoria inveterately, imagined Sarpo's first lie to have necessarily fathered a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

He was inveterately lazy in the morning, although at all other times he was as active as a mountain goat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chasing the Sun] Reference

One of the most inveterately pugnacious of Dr. Butts's college-mates confessed that he had this infirmity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference

Richard, son to the Esquire of the West country, and who was likewise inveterately pursued by the Usurper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference

That I didn't for myself inveterately renew it I seem to infer from the memory of other perambulations of the period -- as to which.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Small Boy and Others] Reference

The preservation of a settlement so important, and yet surrounded by an inveterately hostile people, demanded no ordinary vigilance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852] Reference

Maseres was inveterately honest; he could not, at the bar, bear to see his own client victorious, when he knew his cause was a bad one.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference